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These gangs were thieves, blackmailers, kidnapers of young girls for houses of prostitution, repeaters. Most of them graduated into habitual jailbirds, a few the cleverest became saloon-keepers and politicians and high-class professional gamblers and race track men.
"Well, she was holding Ariadne as close as though she was expecting kidnapers. I came in and she looked up God! Rankin, with what a face of fear! It wasn't grief. It was terror! She said: 'I must save the children I mustn't let it get the children, too. I asked her what she meant, and she went on in a whisper that fairly turned the blood backward in my veins, 'The Minotaur!
"What sacrifices?" "In the first place, you must lay aside your desire for vengeance upon the villainous kidnapers who brought your old servants here and sold them." "Ah, but, Ishmael, I cannot bear to let them go unpunished." "Believe me, no crime ever goes unpunished. These men, sooner or later, will be brought to justice.
You were to have been taken to Paris, dear, and kept forever in one of those awful sanitoriums. They are worse than the grave. In the meantime, the delay gave Mr. Bonner a chance to rescue you from the kidnapers. "Shortly after reaching New York I quarrelled with Thomas Reddon, and my mother and I fled to California. He followed us and sought a reconciliation.
When or where or how no one could tell. By eight o'clock on that dreadful morning the neighborhood had been scoured, the alleys searched and the police were talking darkly of kidnapers and of dragging the river. Mrs.
Thus, in less than two hours after his arrest he was hurried away by the kidnapers, whose word had been accepted as sufficient evidence, and he had not been permitted to secure a single friendly witness.
This committee met, and decided that the objects of the "Chinese Society for the Protection of Women and Children" should he as follows: 1. The detection and suppression of kidnapers and kidnaping. 2. The restoration to their homes of women and children decoyed or kidnaped for prostitution, emigration, or slavery. 3.
You are the bloody prototype of all the arselickers, panders, arsonists, kidnapers, cutthroats, pickpockets, abortionists, pilferers, cheats, forgers, sneakthieves, sharpers and blackmailers since Jacob swindled his brother. Do not fawn upon me little man, I am too old to want women or money.
Now, I put the question to you, whether you can, with safety to Lady Vincent, remain here for weeks or months, either as prosecutor in the criminal trial of the smugglers or as plaintiff in a civil suit with the purchasers of Lady Vincent's servants?" "I cannot." "Then do not attempt either to punish the kidnapers or wrest the slaves from the hands of their present owners.
She gave him a quick little nod, as much as to say, "Go on, sir; we understand each other perfectly," though, of course, she did not understand, nor was she enlightened until some time later, as to just how The Hopper became possessed of Billie. Billie's father declared his purpose to invoke the law upon his son's kidnapers no matter where they might be found.
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